Saturday, March 31, 2007

Lesson in Metaphysics of the day


"'What is metaphysics?'" The question awakens expectations of a discussion about metaphysics. This we will forgo. Instead we will take up a particular metaphysical question. In this way it seems we will let ourselves be transposed directly into metaphysics. Only in this way will we provide metaphysics the proper occasion to introduce itself.

Our plan begins with the unfloding of a metaphysical inquiry, then tries to elaborate the question, and concludes by answering it."

- Heidegger, "What is Metaphysics?"

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